In the second semi-final of the Octagon Series, Chelsea took on Juventus. Chelsea won the toss and elected to field first.
This match saw both the teams making huge scores and was the highest scoring game of the series. Manohar and Nithin opened the innings for Juventus. Manohar got out early with 9 runs. Peter and Nithin really started hitting hard and had the opposition in doldrums. Both of them scored 20s and remained not out. Ajith and Murali chipped in towards the end of the innings with valuable scores of 5 and 14 respectively. If the first semi was won/lost because of "extras", this match also was no different. There were 11 extras in one over! Chelsea was very generous and gave away 21 runs via extras. At the end of the innings, Juventus amassed a huge total of 91 runs.
Chelsea didn't lose heart and batted with a vengeance in the second innings. If Chelsea gave away 21 runs, Juventus gave 16 runs by way of extras. Juby and Sashi started the innings, but Sashi got out soon because of a run out. Rajiv, Vijay, Raghuram, Boby followed. Arun and Suresh both scored crucial 14 runs respectively and Juby top scored with 16 runs.
In the end, Chelsea fell short of 10 runs and Juventus won this knock-out of a match!
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This match saw both the teams making huge scores and was the highest scoring game of the series. Manohar and Nithin opened the innings for Juventus. Manohar got out early with 9 runs. Peter and Nithin really started hitting hard and had the opposition in doldrums. Both of them scored 20s and remained not out. Ajith and Murali chipped in towards the end of the innings with valuable scores of 5 and 14 respectively. If the first semi was won/lost because of "extras", this match also was no different. There were 11 extras in one over! Chelsea was very generous and gave away 21 runs via extras. At the end of the innings, Juventus amassed a huge total of 91 runs.
Chelsea didn't lose heart and batted with a vengeance in the second innings. If Chelsea gave away 21 runs, Juventus gave 16 runs by way of extras. Juby and Sashi started the innings, but Sashi got out soon because of a run out. Rajiv, Vijay, Raghuram, Boby followed. Arun and Suresh both scored crucial 14 runs respectively and Juby top scored with 16 runs.
In the end, Chelsea fell short of 10 runs and Juventus won this knock-out of a match!
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Good narration. But the name is juby not job.
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